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Althea
 Post subject: This Week
PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:55 am 
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Didn't see a topic on this, so I thought I'd create one.

I'm not actually sure what this show is. Is it a semi-satirical look at the news? It seems kinda funny, though.

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Tubby Isaacs
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Don't understand it either. It's a bit like "Behind The Headlines" in the mid-nineties. Where Jeffrey Archer and Paul Boateng "crossed swords" in a supposedly funny way. Sometimes it was Giles Brandreth and Tony Banks.

See also A Week In Politics on Channel 4. I used to like Vincent Hanna, he could do dry humour.
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Someone online says Hanna was "incisive but quirky". That's the phrase for this genre.
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Althea
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It seems a bit right-wing, though. Booo.

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Just in in time to catch Quentin Fucking Letts. Ye gods if ever there was a man I'd punch until I collapsed with exhaustion, it's that loathsome cunt.

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Althea wrote:
It seems a bit right-wing, though. Booo

Andrew Neil is the ex-editor of the Sunday Times and Spectator and a Tory supporter.
Michael Portillo is an ex-right-wing Tory cabinet minister now claiming to be a moderate.
They are 'balanced' by whichever Labour person they can find.
So yes it's weighted in favour of the Tories.
I quite enjoy it in spite of that though.

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Okay, okay, they overlaid I Am What I Am over that Catholic git.

That was awesome.

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Abernathy wrote:
Just in in time to catch Quentin Fucking Letts. Ye gods if ever there was a man I'd punch until I collapsed with exhaustion, it's that loathsome cunt.


You tuned in too late to see Peter Stringfellow sitting on a throne (yes, really) bleating about how unfair the 50% tax rate is. What a cunt!
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Yeah, I did wonder if that was a poor choice of setting. In his own club talking about stuff like that, then appearing in a rather expensive-looking suit.

Wharra nob, as the Yoof say.

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Tonight: Stuff happens on This Week. But gay marriage is up on it, so I will watch it. And moan.

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So who's the rightwinger who gets to make tonight's film to start the debate?

Someone from the IEA?
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Tubby Isaacs wrote:
So who's the rightwinger who gets to make tonight's film to start the debate?

Someone from the IEA?


Oddly enough, it's Mr Simon Callow.

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I'll admit that Neill's intro to the piece (regarding Cameron, Clegg and "that homewrecker Barack Obama") raised a few sniggers.

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Was Callow talking like he was doing a soliloquy?
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Was Callow talking like he was doing a soliloquy?

He is, yes.

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